Swing it While you Eat It

Sitting on good ol' fashioned wooden chairs at the dining table, and staying firmly rooted to it, is so yesteryear.

If only you could take mouthfuls and swing your way to oblivion.

Now you can.



Retailing for a hefty price of arounf $12,000 USD, this unique table allows you to swing to your heart's content. Each seat is a swing, and the table is affixed to the frames of the table.

You can get more info here.

It's raining Golfballs

Christmas came early for Margaret Bellhouse, from Devon, England. If she's a fan of balls, that is. 

Over 50 'air flow' balls have dropped from the skies onto her property. These bright orange 'air flow' balls or practice golf balls were apparently dropped by seagulls who mistook them for mussels. According to a Bird expert, gulls are smart creatures and would drop mussels from the skies to crack them open. 

Strangely, these balls can't be identified. Ms Bellhouse contacted dozens of golf clubs but all deny using such balls. 



It's probably a good thing we don't have such a problem here. I know which thorny building they will drop the golf balls on. More info here. 

Under

Under the intense heat,
We build our castles on the shore.
Made of sand, we will them be
Firm and none shall fall.

The waves ebb and flow,
And surge up the beach.
Sucking all that existed
Like a leech.

Yet, this is but our sole goal,
To build and bake
A lifetime
Stronghold.

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What can your phone do?

US and UK insurer of gadgets, Protect Your Bubble decided to ask their customers on the most unconventional uses for a cell phone. Here are the top five: 

1)      A medical guide for life saving surgery: A British surgeon successfully amputated the arm of a mortally wounded teenager in Congo, Africa, with help from instructions sent to him by text message. The teenager had only a few days to live after his arms were ripped off and gangrene began to set in. Seeking expert advice, David Nott texted his surgical colleague, Meirion Thomas. Thomas replied almost instantly, with ten steps Nott should follow to safely complete the surgery. Amazingly, the surgery was a complete success and the teenager made a full recovery.

2)      Mobile breathalyzer: Had one too many? Now, iPhone users who take drinking responsibly can check their blood alcohol content with the Ibreath. Capable of measuring between 0.000 to 0.100%, the attachable gadget gives you the power to prevent an arrest or an accident before getting behind the wheel. Compatible with iPhones and iPods, the gadget also surprisingly, and rather irrelevantly, doubles as an FM transmitter, which can transmit your personal music wirelessly to your car radio.

3)      Bulletproof vest: While out mowing the lawn, Ronald Richard, of New Orleans, was hit by a stray .45 calibre bullet square in the chest. Incredibly, Mr. Richards was completely uninjured when the bullet hit his mobile phone which was quite fortunately clipped to his overalls, just over his heart. The bullet, believed to be a stray from hunters in nearby woodlands, completely destroyed the mobile phone, but at least Mr. Richards was able to finish mowing the lawn.

4)      Shooting a love story: An award-winning film maker used a Nokia N8 mobile phone to film and produce a first-person love story. The short film depicts an interesting first person perspective of one lover from France, and one from New York who seem worlds apart making their way overseas to close the gap and reunite. The film, lasting just two minutes and 25 seconds, was dubbed winner of the Nokia Short Competition 2011 and the 9th most creative internet film of 2011 by TIME Magazine.

5)      A shocking weapon: Surely, everyone remembers Naomi Campbell launching her mobile phone at a maid? Well now, a self-defense company have taken mobile phone weaponry one step further, with the launch of a mobile phone stun-gun. Not actually able to make calls, the stun gun looks exactly like an everyday mobile phone, until a button is pressed and the gadget releases up to a whopping 3.6 million volt shock to any would be attacker. Quite impressively, the top of the range model also doubles as a flash light.

And, here I am thinking how awesome my phone functions as a paper weight. 

If you are a fish lover, (I mean the live kind, not the fried/steamed/grilled kind), you probably imagined how heavenly it would be to be a fish for a day. Just swim around, with no worries about loan repayments or what clothes to wear or what food to eat.

You can make it nearly possible with the Aquarium Bed.

This USD $12,000 650 ft gallon tank is positioned right on top of your bed. Now, I ain't quite sure what would happen if it leaks or you bump your head too hard when you are sitting up, but I'm guessing a water bed would be far from it.

You can go to sleep and be lulled by this. And wake up, be mesmerized by the fish, and then go back to sleep again.

Likewise, if you have a passion for valuable fish like luohan, this might be a good investment, because seriously, how is someone going to steal your luohan right from your head?

More info here.

One Handed Protection

Soft jazz playing in the background. Dim lighting in the room. Aircon set to optimal temperature for passionate romance. Everything seems to be going well, and then, there's this slight pause, as you use both hands to tear open the condom.

Designer Ben Pawle has the right (or left) handed solution for you.

While you might be forgiven for thinking he faced this problem frequently, he actually created this product with disabled people in mind. But, I guess it is one-size fits all. If ya know what I mean.



More info here.

Weird Proposal

I came across this very very weird proposal by a guy to his girlfriend. 

This is how 30-years-old Alexey Bykov proposed. He covered himself with a lot of blood, and had a group of friends or fellow conspirators pretend he was involved in a bad accident. Throw in a couple of wrecked vehicles and ambulances, and the stage was set. 

Someone called his girlfriend, who rushed down to see the scene for herself. A paramedic (or conspirator) told her he was dead. 

Then he 'came back from the dead' and proposed to her. 

Now, this is the weirdest reasoning I ever heard and his reason for such an elaborate proposal is that "I wanted her to realize how empty her life would be without me and how life would have no meaning without me. I think it worked but I promise it's the last time."

I would never do something like that, to be honest. It takes a lot of responsibility, and pride (a huge load of it) to say something like that. I'm pretty sure there are other ways to demonstrate the importance of him in her life, and frankly shouldn't a proposal be about how empty his life would be without her, and not the other way round? 

Btw, I have no clue how he promised that it would be the last time, cause we all will die one day no?

More info here. 

Secret Chirps

Imagine if you had the power to decipher chirps and know the message that was being transmitted. Honestly, it's not very likely. What is more likely in the near future is to translate your messages into chirps and tweets (the bird sounds and not the 160 characters text) and the only person who can decode it would be a certain mobile app user.

Art Science student Matthijs Munnk has come up with a digital bird messaging system called Little Bird. (One might liken it to a physical twitter.) The tweets and chirps are random, and not in a fixed format like Morse code, so no passer by will intercept the message.

You just need the app.

More info here

That

That which was to be,
Did not turn out to be.

 That which became,
Was not to have been.

 That which was not, Might it be?